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Hardy has done very well, boxed well in her last fight, but she is 37, she's very old, Serrano is 30, and she has had a lot more fights, she hits a lot harder as well, with 71% KOs, Hardy has 17% KOs, which is very low. Hardy is unbeaten, and Serrano has one loss, but that was in 2012, she is on a 22 fight winning run.

Serrano is a 7 weight world champion, which is incredible, even in women's boxing. Serrano won a title at 140 last year, and earlier this year, she dropped down to 115 and won a title at that weight as well, she must have been very big for the weight, did well to make the weight and still win with a first round KO. This is at 126, Serrano is probably a natural super bantamweight, but she has fought at 135 and even 140, and still won without trouble, so the size of Hardy won't be a problem for Serrano.

I think this will be the best win of Serrano's career so far, if she wins as I think she will, Hardy is 22-0, she's good, world champion in her own right, but I think Serrano is a level above, has more skills and power, and she will dominate Hardy. I think Hardy will try her best, will make it at least fairly entertaining, but she won't win many if any rounds, and Serrano will stop her in the late rounds.

I wrote Hardy off, she made that very competitive, might not have done as well as I thought as I watched it, it wasn't close, it is easy to get carried away when a fighter does a lot better than you expect, but she did much better than I expected, I would have stopped it in the first round, I was very surprised she even got to the mid rounds, but she came back very well, won rounds, I didn't think it was as wide as the judges scored it. Serrano looked good overall, but I think she punched herself out in the first 2 rounds, and although she had enough in the tank to get the better of the last 8 rounds, Hardy didn't let her rest, kept throwing, kept making her have to adjust her feet, and after Serrano took a risk in rounds 1 and 2, expended a lot of gas in the tank, Hardy was able to give her a tough fight.